Freight Audit & Payment

Learn how a Fortune 500 hygiene solutions company transformed their freight audit management processes with RateLinx Freight Audit & Pay

Fortune 1000 Water Solutions Company Saved $26M with RateLinx Freight Audit & Pay, ShipLinx, and Carrier Resolution Services

Before adopting a new TMS, PING faced significant shipping challenges stemming from an unsustainable homegrown ERP system and an unsatisfactory legacy TMS. Their global operations across multiple countries were complex and fragmented, with regional shipping silos leading to inconsistent processes and a lack of unified visibility.

RateLinx ShipLinx Achieves ‘Built for NetSuite’ Status New SuiteApp for transportation management meets Oracle NetSuite SuiteCloud Platform development standards and best practices

RateLinx Named Sage Technology Partner for Sage 100, Sage 300, and Sage X3 Manufacturers, Distributors, Retailers, and E-commerce Optimize Supply Chain with Faster, Easier, and Integrated Shipping Operations

RateLinx announces a strategic alliance with SWK Technologies to deliver powerful, scalable transportation management solutions for SMBs. By combining ShipLinx TMS with SWK’s ERP and financial systems expertise, the partnership helps businesses streamline shipping, automate processes, and operate more efficiently.

Natalie Rekow, Ecolab sr. logistics manager, shares how the near elimination of aged invoices transformed their status as a preferred carrier in the freight payment space. With freight payment no longer a focus in carrier meetings, Ecolab can now concentrate on driving better business outcomes and maintaining competitive rates by ensuring timely payments.

Natalie Rekow, Ecolab sr. logistics manager, highlights the significant improvements her team experienced after partnering with RateLinx. From reducing internal workloads and labor to accelerating invoice processing and eliminating aging, RateLinx helped Ecolab nearly eliminate rate tolerances and gain strategic insights into their financial data and spend.

RateLinx CEO Shannon Vaillancourt dives into the complexities of auditing freight invoices with precision. Listen as he discusses the common practice of accepting small discrepancies in freight charges and how RateLinx goes beyond by auditing every penny—transforming the way companies like Ecolab handle massive invoice volumes. Discover why 'horseshoes, hand grenades, and freight bills' are now inseparable in the world of logistics.

RateLinx CEO Shannon Vaillancourt explains how eliminating rate tolerances provides companies like ‪Ecolab with a reliable foundation for procurement. By ensuring accurate rate comparisons and offering detailed analytics, RateLinx empowers Ecolab to make more informed decisions, optimize carrier selection, and explore potential cost-saving opportunities.

RateLinx CEO Shannon Vaillancourt explains the value of our collaborative approach to resolving billing issues. By working closely with carriers to fix problems at the root, RateLinx achieves a 98% first-pass yield, ensuring that invoices are paid accurately and efficiently. This proactive strategy not only saves time and costs but also fosters strong relationships with carriers, leading them to recommend RateLinx to other clients.

Ecolab's freight audit challenges were daunting: from overwhelming manual processes and backlogged invoices to uncooperative carriers and inadequate data for decision-making. Natalie Rekow, Ecolab sr. logistics manager, shares how these obstacles hindered their operations and what they did to turn things around. Discover the steps Ecolab took to enhance their logistics efficiency and why data-driven insights were key to their success.

Natalie Rekow, Ecolab sr. logistics manager, explains how RateLinx solutions not only streamlined invoice auditing but also freed up valuable time for their procurement and leadership teams. With these tactical issues resolved, Ecolab shifted focus to what truly matters—enhancing customer service, fostering innovation with carriers, and driving future growth.

Natalie Rekow, Ecolab sr. logistics manager, reveals how RateLinx automated solutions transformed their freight payment process, reducing the need for manual intervention on invoices. With a first-pass yield now exceeding 98%, Ecolab has surpassed their target, thanks to RateLinx understanding and adapting to their specific business needs.

Natalie Rekow, Ecolab sr. logistics manager, shares how RateLinx solutions led to a dramatic reduction in escalations from carriers. Once a source of frequent issues, freight payment is now a point of praise, with carriers recognizing Ecolab as one of the best in the industry.

RateLinx CEO Shannon Vaillancourt explains how our tailored solutions help clients realize significant savings through a combination of headcount optimization, rate tolerance management, and more. Whether it’s reducing costs or preventing unnecessary expenses, the RateLinx approach consistently delivers measurable results.

Natalie Rekow, Ecolab sr. logistics manager, discusses how RateLinx software dramatically reduced invoice aging, turning a once complex and time-consuming task into a streamlined process. Thanks to RateLinx, Ecolab can now quickly identify and resolve issues that previously caused delays, ensuring that aging is minimal and only due to factors outside their control.

Shannon Vaillancourt, RateLinx CEO, reveals how leveraging advanced software enables the automation of auditing thousands of invoices with remarkable efficiency. Instead of relying on large teams, our technology pinpoints the core issues, delivering accurate and consistent results every time.

Learn how School Specialty mastered shipping and freight challenges with ShipLinx TMS and RateLinx Freight Audit & Pay

Learn how Structure Medical Implemented ShipLinx TMS as their new shipping solution and how ShipLinx TMS integrated with Infor VISUAL for accurate order shipments.

Shannon Vaillancourt, RateLinx CEO, dives into the challenges of manually allocating freight costs and how it affects profitability prediction. In this video, Shannon outlines common pitfalls like delays and increased costs due to reliance on manual processes. He also explains why technology offers a superior solution by eliminating human error, ensuring accuracy, and enhancing efficiency.

Shannon Vaillancourt, RateLinx CEO, shares a powerful example of how technology automates time-consuming tasks, allowing auditors to focus on critical decision making. Discover how this approach increases productivity and ensures precise and efficient auditing processes.

Shannon Vaillancourt, RateLinx CEO, discusses why technology outperforms manual freight cost allocation. He highlights the challenges of relying on human teams, including higher costs and inconsistencies due to human error. Shannon also explains how technology provides a more accurate and efficient solution, reducing variability and ensuring reliable outcomes.

Shannon Vaillancourt, RateLinx CEO, discusses one of the biggest challenges in freight management: the time lag between shipments and invoices. With shipments often processed days before invoices arrive, accurately matching them can be complex. Discover how addressing this gap is crucial for efficient freight management and learn how RateLinx provides solutions to streamline the process.

Shannon Vaillancourt, RateLinx CEO, explains the vital role of the RateLinx carrier resolution team in accurately allocating freight costs to shipments or orders. Discover how their expertise tackles challenges such as incorrect reference field information and identifying discrepancies in past shipments. Learn how their extensive experience not only resolves data issues but also shares best practices for precise and efficient cost assignment, making complex freight management seamless.

Shawn Gagg, CIO and VP of marketing and sales at Jaeckle Distributors, discusses the crucial first steps in creating predictable financials within logistics. Learn how itemizing freight costs and improving communication with carriers can lead to more accurate financial tracking and better alignment with orders. Discover how these strategies can streamline your operations and enhance your financial predictability.

Shawn Gagg, CIO and VP of marketing and sales at Jaeckle Distributors, outlines the second step in accurately assigning freight costs. He emphasizes the importance of verifying contract rates and integrating all relevant carrier details, including job site delivery, oversized shipments, and liftgate requirements. Discover how RateLinx ensures precise cost assignment and effective auditing by setting correct rates and incorporating comprehensive data.

Shawn Gagg, CIO and VP of marketing and sales at Jaeckle Distributors, explains the importance of tying freight expenses to specific shipments. By connecting orders to branches, customers, and manufacturers, businesses can gain deeper insights into the profitability of each region, branch, and territory manager. This step allows companies to make informed decisions about fleet and carrier choices, ultimately driving better profitability.

Shawn Gagg, CIO and VP of marketing and sales at Jaeckle Distributors, discusses how our rapid and reliable process has transformed his operations. With RateLinx, speed and accuracy are no longer concerns for our clients. We handle everything efficiently, eliminating lag time and delays. Velocity is crucial in today’s supply chain, and RateLinx delivers with lightning-fast freight management.

The perfect blend of speed and accuracy. Shannon Vaillancourt, RateLinx CEO, explains how our technology handles the fast processing, while our expert team ensures accuracy by resolving any discrepancies through direct conversations with carriers. This approach not only builds credibility, but also guarantees precise and timely results, making RateLinx a trusted partner for both customers and carriers.

RateLinx CEO Shannon Vaillancourt explains how our solutions optimize freight movements and consider specific customer requirements to ensure accurate insights without any false savings potential. Linking orders to shipping costs can be a manual and time-consuming challenge, but RateLinx simplifies the process by helping companies uncover real freight savings that were previously hidden.

RateLinx CEO Shannon Vaillancourt discusses how our customers leverage the RateLinx system to achieve significant savings and gain trustworthy insights to manage large-scale costs. Learn how our solutions are designed to maximize savings and drive efficiency from the very beginning.

Shawn Gagg, CIO and VP of marketing and sales at Jaeckle Distributors, discusses how Jaeckle transformed their logistics operations and achieved more predictable profits using ShipLinx TMS and RateLinx Freight Audit & Pay. Discover how these powerful tools have enhanced Jaeckle's business management and kept them ahead in a competitive market.

The most profitable businesses achieve higher profits with predictable financials. Calculating the profitability per item, per customer, per order is almost impossible because most businesses aren't connecting the shipping costs to each item, customer, or order. Oftentimes, businesses are unaware that an item may be losing them money due to shipping costs per item or order. In this video, you will learn how ShipLinx TMS  incorporates shipping costs into every facet of your business and leads to predictable profits.

We’ve been building our partnerships with trusted finance and operations partners like NexTec, an award-winning Acumatica and Sage partner, to find new ways to help you optimize your entire supply chain through our powerful ERP integrations with ShipLinx TMS. RateLinx’s advanced Gartner top-ranked TMS solution has 100% system uptime, expert-level Scottsdale-based technical support, and implements in 30 days or less. Hear from Jim Gross and Natasha Laszchuk of NexTec, and Shannon Vaillancourt, 30-year logistics veteran and RateLinx CEO, to learn how to optimize your entire transportation lifecycle.

By combining Numina’s RDS warehouse execution system’s (WES) advance-order release wave creation and order cartonization logic with ShipLinx TMS’s parcel and LTL shipment optimization, you can now quickly find the most cost-effective mode to ship for B2B and B2C orders. Discover how the combination of a WES and fully automated pack-and-ship combined with a multi-modal TMS reduces freight expenses up to 30% and drives order fulfillment efficiency. With the unified logic between Numina RDS and ShipLinx TMS, orders get out the door effortlessly while delighting customers with on-time deliveries.

Make rate tolerances, auditing invoices one by one, past due balances, and over-billing a thing of the past. Toss out the old way of auditing freight invoices and lean on technology to audit freight invoices faster and more accurately so you can become shipper of choice with your carriers.

Learn how Ecolab transformed their freight audit management processes with RateLinx Freight Audit & Pay

Make rate tolerances, auditing invoices one by one, past due balances, and over-billing a thing of the past. Toss out the old way of auditing freight invoices and lean on technology to audit freight invoices faster and more accurately so you can become shipper of choice with your carriers.

Read about how Wire Belt eliminated manual processes and automated decision making to expedite shipments. Order consolidation is now fast, automated, saves shipping processing time, and minimizes customer downtime.

Learn how Power Sales saved thousands of labor hours and reduced label-printing time by 83% ShipLinx TMS optimization, automation, and integration saved time and eliminated double shipments.

How a retailer used and advanced 30-day modeling analysis to better align their freight network and discovered hidden cost‑savings.

Hear from John Gilkey, Chief Operating Officer at OnlineStores.com, on how they leverage RateLinx to add speed, agility, and resiliency to their transportation network.

Flair Flexible Packaging Corporation chose RateLinx as TMS, real-time visibility, freight audit, and data provider.

Gartner, the world’s leading research and advisory company, recently named RateLinx to their latest Market Guide for Freight Audit and Payment Providers.

What is a freight audit, and how does it help with your billing and freight payments? What you need to know and the benefits for your company.

Manufacturing and distribution organization achieves big cost-savings and quick ROI while re‑engineering its logistics operation through optimization and automation.

Working with potential carriers and crafting an RFP to negotiate the best price is a critical process all shippers face and is easily overlooked. But you can improve this process to have a positive impact on your carrier network.

RateLinx just announced a new, complimentary freight audit analysis available for shippers looking to improve transportation efficiencies and effectively implement cost-savings initiatives.

Learn how a flooring distributor used real-time freight spend insights to improve customer service and profitability.

Learn how leading industrial and healthcare supplier Ecolab eliminated exceptions, rate-tolerances, and non-value-added work to gain valuable freight insights and reduce costs.

RateLinx announced today a new partnership with ProcessWeaver, a global leader of integrated SAP shipping solutions for businesses worldwide. This partnership extends enhanced freight audit capabilities, supported by RateLinx’s PayLinx product, to ProcessWeaver customers.

Gartner recently named RateLinx to their latest Market Guide for Freight Audit and Payment Providers for the second time.

Traditional freight audit providers have served a purpose for a long time. However, technology is revolutionizing the way we think about freight invoice audits.

Clean data and advanced invoice-order matching is empowering direct carrier payment and eliminating payment anxiety.

Creating good relationships with carriers is very important for shippers. Shippers have plenty of challenges to becoming Shipper of Choice.

The freight industry is built on relationships. Shippers and carriers depend on each other; the best LTL practices create a system in which both shippers and carriers benefit.

Big data has become an essential aspect of supply chain management, but which elements are really driving Value? We outline how to leverage the 5 Vs of Supply Chain Big Data.